On Sunday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told Hungarian television channel M1 that the Hungarian and Serbian borders are both being protected intensively by the Romanian police, the border police and the security forces. Nevertheless a new migration route – from Serbia or Bulgaria towards Romania – must be prevented from developing.

He said that new routes would require further efforts on the part of the Hungarian border police, as the same level of security would need to be ensured on the Hungarian-Romanian border as that which already exists on the Hungarian-Serbian border.

He added that, if necessary, a border security fence could also be constructed between Hungary and Romania. The majority of engineering work related to it has already been completed: groundwork has been carried out, fencing elements are already in the area, and the Hungarian Defence Force already has considerable experience in fence-building.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)